Eleven-year-old Jackson Gorum
killed his first turkey on Sunday morning while hunting with his grandfather,
David Gorum. The turkey, which had a 9.5-inch beard, weighed 18 pounds and had
one-inch spurs. Jackson shot the gobbler from 12 steps away with a .20-gauge
shotgun loaded with No. 5 shot.

Sparta Academy’s baseball
team dropped to 0-3 on the season Monday of last week after an 11-1 loss to
Class AAA Clarke Prep in Grove Hill.

Hillcrest High School opened
the 2008 season Friday with a double header against Escambia County High School
in Atmore.

Escambia won the first game,
15-2, and edged out the Jags, 8-1, in the second game of the twin bill.

(Standout Hillcrest players
in those games included Marc Barlow, Quinton Nettles, Alexander Nevlous and
Neil Presley. Brandon Armstrong was Hillcrest’s head coach.)

Sparta Academy’s softball
team showed plenty of fight, but came up short in a 17-0 loss to Class AAA
Clarke Prep Monday of last week in Grove Hill.

“Now that we’ve hung in there
against these larger schools, we’ve just got to continue to work hard, string
us one or two wins in a row together and get out confidence back,” Sparta
softball coach Mike Sims said. “We can turn this thing around.”

Herman Matthews of Evergreen
caught this big mouth bass last Thursday afternoon in an undisclosed fishing
hole. Matthews good-naturedly declined to say where he caught the bass, but did
say that it took a couple of minutes to bring in the fish. He caught the bass
with a rod and net, using a green rubber worm for bait.

Lake Higdon, eight, killed
this turkey during a youth hunt Sunday at Bermuda. Higdon is the son of Rod and
Margaret Higdon.

24 YEARS AGO

MARCH 11, 1993

Jags bomb Wilcox in baseball
opener: The Hillcrest High School Jaguars opened the 1993 baseball season with
a 19-0 victory over the Jaguars of Wilcox Central High School Monday afternoon
in Evergreen.

Senior Rhett Wilson pitched
the complete game shutout. Wilson allowed three hits and walked five while
recording 10 strikeouts.

Isaac McMillan and Sederick
Fluker led the offensive attack for the Jaguars, each collecting two hits and
combining for seven runs. Marlo McDaniel added a three-run home run in the
first inning. It was McDaniel’s first extra-base hit in high school baseball.

Reggie Boykin paced the
Jaguars on the base paths. Boykin collected five stolen bases. McMillan added
four, Fluker had three and Earnest Grace and Gary Remundo each had two as the
Jags raised plenty of dust with 18 stolen bases.

A rematch was schedule
against Wilcox Wednesday afternoon. The Jags will be on the road next week
visiting Escambia County High School on Tuesday and Pleasant Home on Wednesday.
The Jags will face Frisco City’s Whippets on March 18 in Evergreen and will
host the first area game of the year on March 19 as the Trojans of Charles
Henderson (Troy) High School visits. The starting time for all home games is
3:30 p.m.

49 YEARS AGO

MARCH 14, 1968

Just one shot did in this red
fox for C.C. Rogers who lives on Rt. 1, Owassa. Rogers shot the fox with a
.22-calibre rifle. It isn’t too often that you hear of anyone bagging a red fox
with a rifle.

99 YEARS AGO

MARCH 13, 1918

Large Catamount Killed: J.A.
Lunsford last week sent The Courant the front foot of a large catamount which
he killed a few days before in Bottle Creek swamp, near Brooklyn. The animal,
he said, weighed 23 pounds.